Politics
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This timeperiod was maked by increasing industrialism and innovations in transportation and communications such as canals and the telegraph.
What is the Market Revolution?
What is the Homestead Act?
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
What is free coinage of silver? Or getting off of the "gold standard"?
This political ideology emerged in opposition to the two main parties to support the working class in the 1880s and 1890s.
What is Populism (The People's party)?
During this time period, amendments and laws were passed to protect the rights of African Americans recently freed from slavery.
This was the first direct tax on the American colonies, requiring a Royal stamp legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards. Let to protests and claims of "no taxation without representation."
What is the Stamp Act?
Though largely unsuccessful and in the 19th century, these were formed to fight for the rights of the working class, and faced violent responses.
What is a labor union?
This was the echange of goods between the new and old world that would eventually lead to increased trade and the merchantil system.
What is the Columbian Exhange?
This group opposed ratifying the Constitution because it gave too much power to the Federal government.
Who are the federalists?
This religious revivial led to reform movements, such as temperance, education, and women's suffrage.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This law caused violence over the issue of popular soverignty in U.S. territories in 1854.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This group argued that immigrants were taking away American jobs and therefore immigration should be restricted.
What are nativists?
This was used to justify the accumulation of mass wealth while others suffered in poverty by declaring the wealthy more fit.
What is Social Darwinism?
This political group opposed slavery because of it's negative impact on the economy.
Who were the Free Soilers (members of the Free Soil Party)?
What is the Enlightenment?
This court case made "seperate but equal" train cars legal, uholding Jim Crow laws as Constutitional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This was the belief that the wealthy had an obligation to be philanthropic and provide for the needy in society. Led to Carnegie building free libraries.
What is Gospel of Wealth? (Or Social Gospel)?
Proponents of the "New South" such has Henry Grady wanted the Southern economy to change in this way after the Civil War.
Boss Tweed and other local political figures formed these in urban areas. They were corrupt, but provided services to immigrants and the poor.
What are political machines?
During this timeperiod, George Whitfield and other New Lights empashized a personal relationship with God, leading to new denominations.
What is the First Great Awakening?
These were added to the Constitution to appease those who opposed ratifying it because it gave the federal government too much power.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is New England?
This system relied on high tariffs and government funding of infrastructure projects such as roads and canals.
What is the American System?